About S Kedzie Ave / W Van Buren St

Real Estate Prices and Overview

S Kedzie Ave / W Van Buren St median real estate price is $117,711, which is less expensive than 72.3% of Illinois neighborhoods
and 71.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

The average rental price in S Kedzie Ave / W Van Buren St
is currently $866, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis.
Rents here are currently lower in price than 47.9% of Illinois
neighborhoods.

S Kedzie Ave / W Van Buren St is an urban neighborhood (based on population
density) located in Chicago, Illinois.

S Kedzie Ave / W Van Buren St real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to small (studio to two bedroom)
small apartment buildings and single-family homes. Most of the residential real estate
is renter occupied. Many of the residences in the S Kedzie Ave / W Van Buren St neighborhood
are relatively historic, built no later than 1939, and in some cases, quite a bit earlier. A number of residences were also built between 1940 and 1969.

Vacant apartments or homes are a major fact of life in
S Kedzie Ave / W Van Buren St. The current real estate vacancy rate here is 26.3%.
This is higher than the rate of vacancies in 91.9% of
all U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, most vacant housing here
is vacant year round. This can sometimes be the case in neighborhoods
dominated by new construction that is not yet occupied.
But often neighborhoods with vacancy rates this high are places that
can be plagued by a protracted vacancy problem. If you live here, you
may find that a number of buildings in your neighborhood are actually empty.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from
its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This
neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as
revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything
from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people
get around.

Notable & Unique: Modes of Transportation

Our research revealed that more commuters here take the bus to work
(20.9% ride the bus) than 97.2% of all American
neighborhoods. If you like the idea of leaving your car and home and
hopping the bus to work, this might be a good neighborhood for you to
consider.

Notable & Unique: Occupations

From major sales accounts to fast-food workers, sales and service employees
are often the backbone of the local economy. In the S Kedzie Ave / W Van Buren St
neighborhood, they truly stand out. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis
identifies this neighborhood as having a higher percentage of sales and
service workers than 95.7% of all American neighborhoods.

Notable & Unique: People

The S Kedzie Ave / W Van Buren St neighborhood is unique for having just
5.4% of adults here having earned a bachelor's degree.
This is a lower rate of college graduates than NeighborhoodScout found
in 95.2% of America's neighborhoods.

Notable & Unique: Real Estate

In addition, corner bodegas, stores on the first floor and apartments above, former grand Victorian residences converted into apartments, three-deckers built shoulder-to-shoulder, duplexes. Such building types define the real estate of neighborhoods dominated by small 2, 3, and 4 unit apartment buildings. Many are in older core neighborhoods of Eastern and Midwestern cities, or historic town centers in their hinterlands. If you wax romantic about the look and feel of such neighborhoods, with fresh pizza, falafel and an independent florist at the corner, then you might find the S Kedzie Ave / W Van Buren St neighborhood worth a close look. This neighborhood is an absolutely outstanding example of the dominance of small 2, 3, and 4 unit apartment buildings compared to neighborhoods across the nation, as they make up a substantial portion of this neighborhood's real estate stock. In fact, no less than 66.3% of the real estate here is made up of such dwellings, which is higher than 99.4% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Furthermore, do you watch 'This Old House' on Public Television? Do you love the idea of fixing up a Colonial or Victorian era home, complete with the charm of yesteryear? Do you like to stroll or drive streets lined with gracious older residences? If you found yourself nodding yes to any of these questions, you are going to be interested in this unique neighborhood. The S Kedzie Ave / W Van Buren St neighborhood stands out on a national scale for the sheer concentration of historic residences it contains: 75.5% of the residential real estate here was built from 1939 or earlier, some much earlier. This is a greater concentration of historic homes than 98.8% of the neighborhoods in the United States.

The Neighbors

The Neighbors: Income

There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a
neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood
may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand
the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the
federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with
a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than
another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the
conditions and character of a neighborhood.

The neighbors in the S Kedzie Ave / W Van Buren St neighborhood in Chicago are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood.
NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower
than 82.1% of U.S. neighborhoods.
With 36.4% of the children here below the federal poverty
line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 79.3%
of U.S. neighborhoods.

The Neighbors: Occupations

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel
rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if
most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is
the shear diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits
your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the S Kedzie Ave / W Van Buren St neighborhood, 42.9% of the working population is employed in
sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is
manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 31.7% of the residents employed.
Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations
(13.5%), and 11.9% in executive, management, and professional occupations.

The Neighbors: Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents,
our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior - comes
from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting
and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or
more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives
each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same
city can have drastically different cultures.

In the S Kedzie Ave / W Van Buren St neighborhood in Chicago, IL, residents
most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (1.3%).

The Neighbors: Languages

The most common language spoken in the S Kedzie Ave / W Van Buren St
neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.5% of households.

Getting to Work

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your
place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in
just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a
long and arduous commute.
The greatest number of commuters in S Kedzie Ave / W Van Buren St neighborhood spend
between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (42.7% of working
residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S.
neighborhoods.

Here most residents (64.7%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work.
In addition, quite a number also ride the bus to get to work (20.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning
a car useful for getting to work.

Schools In This Neighborhood
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Grades

* Depending on where you live in this neighborhood, your children may attend these
schools or other schools outside the neighborhood. Always check with your local
school department to determine which schools your children may attend based on
your specific address and your child's grade-level.

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